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parte critters Leners Patent Nq. 99,605, dated February s, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN NEEDLE-WRAPPERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part 'of the same.

To `all whom 'it may conce/rn Be it known that I, ALFRED Srrnuupron, of Redditch, in the county of Worcester, England, have invented a new and improved Needle-Wrapper; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to makeand use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of' this specification, in which- Figure l is a back view of the inner wrapper without the needles.

Figure 2 is an edge view of ,the'same Figure 3 is a face view of the saine folded together.

Figure 4 is anedge ViewA of the same.

Figure 5 is a face view, and

Figure 6, a sectional view of the same, showing it with the needles.

`Figure 7 is a back view of the same.

Figure 8 is a face view ofthe complete wrapper un` folded.

Figure 9 isa transverse sectionof the same. Figure 1.0 is a face'view of the same, showingit partly folded together.

Figure 11 is a face view of' thesame, showing it entirely folded together.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to certain improvements in devices for securing needles to the papel' wrappers in which they are to be wrapped or enclosed.

The invention consists in fitting the needles to be papel' d, through the folded edges of a compound piece or stripof papel' and fabric, and attaching the edges of the paper of the said compound piece or strip to the paper wrapper,

By this arrangement, the needles are firmly secured to the wrappers in which they are folded, while, at the same time, being only held at their middle, they can .be easily removed one by one, without disturbing the others.

A, in the drawing, is a piece of paper, which is of the saine width as the paperavrapper B, in which the needles are to be enclosed.

G is a piece vof cotton, or other fabric, about as large `as the piece of paper A. v

The piece O is placed upon B, as in figs. 1 and 2, and then the two pieces are folded at the lines ab, to form a compound piece of paper and fabric, the paper .heilig on the outside, `as shown in figs..3 and 4.

The needles 1) D are next put'throngh the folded edges of the paper and fabric, as in figs. 3vand 4, and then the whole folded strip is' flattened out again, as in figs.` 5 and 6'. The fabric G is then trimmed of its superfluous edges, to remain about as: large as shown infig'. 7,'it beingretained on the paperA by theneedles.

The manner in which the needles are passed throii'gh the` paper and fabric will be readily understoodby reference` to figs. 5, 6, and 7, from which it will be seen, that the upper and lower portions of the needles are in front of the paper A, While their `middle parts are behind the fabric O, a piece of fabric and paper being in front of the middle portion of the needles.

It will also be seen, that the fabric is entirely con- -cealed by the paper.

The ends ofthe paper A are then pasted to the paper wrapper B, as in figs. 8 and 9, the said wrapper being ofthe ordinary kind, and provided with the or? dinary creases or folds.

The paper wrapper is then folded in the ordinary way, and is, in g. l0, represented partly, andin fig. 11, entirely folded together.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is y The method of inserting needles in a compound strip, formed of' a fabric, C, and paper A, which is then secured in a wrapper, in the usual way, all as described. y

The above specification of' my invention signed by me, this 16th dayof July, 1869.

ALFRED SHRIMPTON.

Witnesses:

J. B. BRAME, THOMAS H. Lyons. 

